Word: dreadfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think that these reactions follow primarily from our failure to recognize the implications of Chekhov's realism. His is a compassionate realism, which goes beyond categories of hope, dread, and anger, to study the reticulating recesses of self-delusion, the vicissitudes of the self-circling, sensitive, introspective mind. The technique of his drama is to show how complex people emprison their souls through the processes of self-consciousness, enclosing themselves into half-perceived mausoleums of hope and fear. What renders this so complex is that Chekhov displays his people without reference to idea, but only to the organic progress...
...then dread. Of two things. Merilee clambered over Sam and searched for the beach below. No Girl, no Alfred. "Hey keeds!" she bellowed, waking the canary to ruffle and gurgle once in its throat. "Sorry. Birdie," she whispered. "Chow down, keeds!" But no Girl and no Alfred appeared...
...second dread. "Hey Sam, I spent I-don't-know-forty-maybe-fifty-goodies on cosas...
...Columbia Eagle plowed through the calm waters of the Gulf of Siam, the emergency whistle shrieked the signal that all seafarers dread: "Abandon ship...
...gathering tragedy is that Ralphie is not special. Heroin, long considered the affliction of the criminal, the derelict, the debauched, is increasingly attacking America's children. Part of the dread and the danger of the problem is that it spreads all too invisibly. No one knows how many heroin addicts of any age there are in the U.S. But in New York City alone, where most experts think roughly half the heroin users in the U.S. live, 224 teenagers died from overdoses or heroin-related infections last year, about a quarter of the city's 900 deaths from...